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June 3, 2014

Illamasqua- Bacterium [Swatch]

I was rooting around in my folder of un-posted swatches and found this! It's a very un-Summer-like color for you today: Illamasqua- Bacterium.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Bacterium was the first Illamasqua I ever bought. It was just so ugly-pretty I had to have it! Talk about a weird polish to pull you into a brand...

Bacterium is a caramel, grayish-brown base filled with ultrafine silvery blue shimmer which gives it a duochrome feel at certain angles.

Artificial light, three coats:

Window-filtered daylight:

This is a strange color, to be sure, but I find those interesting.
And, on me, it is just that: interesting. AKA, not the most flattering polish I've ever worn, but I feel it could be great against darker skin tones or
olive-complected people.

That said, this is not as abominable on as I thought it would be. In certain light it clashed slightly with my skin tone, but wasn't garish. Yet, in other lighting, the cool-toned shimmer rendered it almost attractive against my skin. So, strange. Very interesting play between the warm-toned base and cool-toned shimmer.

Outside, shade:

Sun:

Formula: It is on the sheerer side, but the consistency is not runny at all- really more on the medium-thick side, and paints on the nail very smoothly. It is slightly brushstrokey, and the second coat dragged slightly while I was trying to even out the coverage. I also got a tiny bit of very small bubbling even though I waited between coats and used thin layers. Three coats were opaque for me.